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Dave Serwatka is known for Top Chef (2006), The Real Housewives of Orange County (2006) and Top Design (2007).
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Oct 21, 2013 · NBCUniversal's Esquire cabler named Dave Serwatka, veep of current programming, Jamie French veep of communications and talent relations and Marta Harmon veep of marketing as the newly-launched...
- “But You Can’T Taste The Food …”
- “How Is This Going Off The Rails on Day One?”
- “A Symptom of The Cultural Moment”
- “Did We Lose Yet?”
- “Looking Off The Beaten Path”
- “An Incontrovertible Truth”
Amid a flurry of mergers and acquisitions, Barry Diller‘s Universal Television portfolio is absorbed by a then-GE-owned NBC in 2004 — forming NBCUniversal. In the ensuing executive shuffle, Trio boss Lauren Zalaznick (“It was the biggest little network no one remembers”) is placed atop Bravo. With The Real Housewivesnot yet a twinkle in anyone’s ey...
With a two-challenge format in place for each episode — a short “Quickfire,” followed by a more grueling “Elimination” — and 12 castmembers of varying qualifications (and temperaments) on board, producers and a handful of Bravo executives prepare to convene in San Francisco in November 2005 to shoot the first season of what has now officially been ...
A new host and the focus on professional chefs help grow the show’s popularity with audiences and the culinary elite in season two, but the trappings of aughts reality TV drama give some pause. SIMMONSWe shot that second season in Los Angeles, and it was a very controversial one. There was a lot of reality drama that none of us had anticipated. By ...
Now a cultural behemoth in both food and television, Top Chefbirths five spinoffs — including a five-season run for Top Chef Masters— and is exported to 29 countries and territories. The show courts politicians, pop stars and, in 2010, Emmy voters. CUTFORTH We would always go to the Emmys with hope in our hearts, but our category was just dominated...
Driven in large part by the success of Top Chef, Cutforth and Lipsitz sell Magical Elves to the U.K.’s Tinopolis Group for $100 million in 2014 — departing the company (and the show) five years later. New franchise stewards lean further away from reality TV, start dipping back into the robust pool of Top Chefalums populating the food media landscap...
As season 20 nears an end, with a Paris-set finale airing June 8, it’s natural to wonder how much further Top Chef can go. But it’s already renewed for No. 21, its core team is not yet considering an end to the gig and future spinoffs are on the table. And as those involved from day one look across the industry, both entertainment and culinary, the...
Dave Serwatka. Producer: Top Chef. Dave Serwatka is known for Top Chef (2006), The Real Housewives of Orange County (2006) and Top Design (2007).
Check all the awards won and nominated for by Dave Serwatka - James Beard Award for Television Program, In Studio or Fixed Location (2011) , Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program (2010) , James Beard Award for Special/Documentary (Television or Video Webcast) (2008) and more awards.
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